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Word: liquidates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extreme, it set a tradition of simplicity which was to shape Japanese art right along. With increasing prosperity, the priests got professional artists to fill their temples with images of Buddha, his attendant deities and fierce guardian gods. Such masterpieces of sacred sculpture as the Kannon (opposite) translated the liquid flow of brush-drawing into bronze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ambassadors of Good Will | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...other, neater objects, such as, for example, drainpipes. Neither the rich shadows of Renaissance painting nor the dazzling highlights of Impressionism intrigue Léger; he sticks to bright, flat, posterlike hues. He never sings the glory of dappled things, nor does he praise anything soft, warm, delicate or liquid. Under Léger's firm brush, foliage, flesh, hair, fabrics, clouds and the very air itself take on an appearance of stamped, enameled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Machine-Age Primitive | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

Night fell. Tuberoses and jasmine scented the sultry air. From behind a bougainvillea-twined wall rippled chords from a guitar, and a liquid voice lifted up the slow-cadenced melody of La Sandunga (graceful woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Bali Ha'i-By-the-River | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...CRIMSON will throw its traditional post-Yale game party this afternoon in its building at 14 Plympton St. for all former CRIMSON editors in reuniting classes and for all other interested alumni. Families are invited and liquid refreshments will be served...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Opens Plympton Door To Old Editors After Yale Tilt | 6/10/1953 | See Source »

...Liquid Assets. In El Monte, Calif., David Martz, needing cash for the down payment on a new car, drove his old one into a dealer's shop, told the mechanics to remove the gas tank, shake out $820 in half-dollars which he had accumulated in four years by tossing a 50? piece into the tank each time he bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 8, 1953 | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

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